Parent Academy - Maths Hub Websites

This week's Primary parent academy was aimed at parents of children in years 1 and 2. During the session, parents were introduced the Year 1 and Year 2 primary maths hub websites, something that was rolled out successfully in Years 3-6 last academic year. 

During the session, we shared what we are doing to help parents to better understand our maths curriculum. We discussed the importance of language, as part of reasoning and problem solving, to help children improve maths mastery. Picture widgits in various languages help to support maths vocabulary the children may not know. In addition, using maths sentence stems can help students to explore maths concepts further. 

We modelled the types of questions that children are engaging with in class to help them achieve maths mastery. When using White Rose Maths, in years 1 and 2, we are also making sure children are exposed to looking at problems using concrete resources as well as pictorially, using varied models. We discussed how oftentimes children are moved on too quickly to the abstract, written form of problems and children miss out opportunities to fully understand the mathematical concept. This can mean that at times they learn a method without understanding why the method works. 

Resources shared during the parent academy, including the slides themselves, can be found on the maths hub websites. The link for this can be found on the parent portal on Firefly and is also shared on the year group weekly learning newsletters.

Andrea O'Keeffe

Year 6 Teacher/Maths Coordinator